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Havana

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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 08 Jun 2004, 01:33
New Comrade (Say hi & be nice to me!)

28 Dec 2004, 02:32

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS wrote:

HAVANA -- Tourism to Cuba increased 8 percent this year compared to 2003, despite new U.S. restrictions sharply cutting back on how many Americans visit the island, state media reported Monday.

More than 2 million tourists visited the Caribbean island this year, the largest number ever, Tourism Minister Manuel Marrero announced at a weekend event in the eastern province of Holguin.

Last year, about 1.9 million foreigners visited Cuba. Canadians top the list of tourists, followed by Europeans, primarily from Italy, France, Germany and Spain.

Marrero told reporters tourism now represents 41 percent of Cuba's foreign exchange income - a leap from just 4 percent in 1990.

Last week, Economics Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez told Cuba's National Assembly that earnings from tourism increased by 15 percent in 2004 compared to the previous year.

Rodriguez also said Cuba expected up to 2.05 million tourists by year's end, and predicted that as many as 2.3 million people would visit Cuba in 2005.

Few of those now visiting Cuba come from the United States.

By mid-September, visits to the island, primarily by Cuban-Americans, had dropped 25 percent since the United States implemented new travel restrictions June 30 cutting the number of authorized family visits to Cuba from once a year to once every three years.

As fire destroys paper, so will Red destroy White.

Havana

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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 08 Jun 2004, 01:33
New Comrade (Say hi & be nice to me!)

28 Dec 2004, 02:35

I hate the part where people with family in Cuba can only visit once every three years. And I thought seeing my mother every year wasn't enough.

Makes me seriously consider moving to Mexico. My only other option seems to be to get her out of Cuba, but she loves it there and getting her out is the US's plan. I will not be a part of that plan.

Also, I can only spend $50 in Cuba now (per 3 years)! WTF!

As fire destroys paper, so will Red destroy White.

frank_pivo_4

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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 01 Jan 2005, 16:45
Komsomol

02 Jan 2005, 05:26

Hey do you ever plan to go back to cuba.For good?You never know castro might make you his succesor

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WorkingClass

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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 03 Jul 2004, 16:52
Komsomol

23 Jan 2005, 21:06

You could actually be very useful. Say you flee to Cuba through Mexico and then you tell the Cuban newspapers that if they want, they can make a paper about a Cuban-American fleeing to Cuba.

Farell

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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 28 Jun 2004, 19:28
Party Member

24 Jan 2005, 00:47

That would be funny.

Of course, the American media would NEVER report that sort of thing. Well, it's unlikely, anyway.

Genuine WCM Sig

Red Rebel

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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 21 Dec 2004, 23:53
Ideology: Marxism-Leninism
Philosophized

27 Jan 2005, 16:07

Quote:
That would be funny. Of course, the American media would NEVER report that sort of thing. Well, it's unlikely, anyway.

True, the American media seems to skip somwe of the more important matters, things that don't involve the US, and definitly something that would be pro-communism.

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N'Dj

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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 26 Jun 2004, 04:41
Pioneer

15 Mar 2005, 01:18

frank_pivo_4 wrote:
Hey do you ever plan to go back to cuba.For good?You never know castro might make you his succesor
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I'm sure he wouldn't mind.

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